Poll: Best TV Sitcoms

[Lincoln Republican]

In your view, what is the Golden Age of TV sitcoms?

For your reference, following is a listing of some of the top TV sitcoms from the 1950s to the 1990s.

1950s

I Love Lucy
Leave It To Beaver
The Honeymooners
Father Knows Best
The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet
The Donna Reed Show
The Real McCoys
Dennis the Menace
The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show
The Jack Benny Program

1960s

The Andy Griffith Show
Bewitched
I Dream of Jeannie
The Munsters
Gilligan's Island
Get Smart
The Beverly Hillbillies
The Addams Family
The Dick Van Dyke Show
Green Acres

1970s

All In The Family
MASH
Happy Days
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
Three's Company
Taxi
Barney Miller
The Jeffersons
Sanford and Son
Maude

1980s

Cheers
The Golden Girls
Family Ties
Night Court
Roseanne
The Cosby Show
The Wonder Years
Married...With Children
Three's Company
Happy Days

1990s

Friends
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
Frasier
That '70s Show
Home Improvement
Boy Meets World
Everybody Loves Raymond
The King of Queens
Saved By The Bell
3rd Rock From the Sun
 
Please vote and discuss if you wish.

Please share with us what your favorite TV sitcoms are if you wish.


 

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

1980's

Cosby Kids, Fat Albert, Different Strokes and Gimme a Break

[RINO Tom]

Hogan's Heroes, MASH, Seinfeld, Cheers, The Office, It's Always Sunny, Scrubs, Arrested Development, Wings (don't think it's that funny, but this is a shout out to my dad), Andy Griffith Show, That '70s Show, Modern Family, among others.  I might actually laugh the most per minute of watching at Arrested Development (first three seasons, of course).

EDIT: Wow, LOL, totally ignored the point of this thread and just listed shows I liked ... oh well.

[Lincoln Republican]

Myself, I have a fondness for All In The Family, The Jeffersons, Maude.

So I would say the Golden Age for TV sitcoms was the 1970s.

[pops]

90s was the golden age for sure. 3rd Rock from the Sun, Everybody Loves Raymond, and HIMYM are my favorites

[GeorgiaModerate]

I have fond child associations with your 60s list, but for quality it's got to be the 70s, which also included Soap (the best sitcom ever). 

[DINGO Joe]

Sitcoms really don't age very well.  I guess the 70s since they were so important in that era.  I guess I probably enjoyed the 90s best, though the best sitcom of the 90s, the Simpsons, was not listed.  It's Always Sunny in Phillly and Arrested Development would rank high in my best of all time.

[Green Line]

Hogan's Heroes, MASH, Seinfeld, Cheers, The Office, It's Always Sunny, Scrubs, Arrested Development, Wings (don't think it's that funny, but this is a shout out to my dad), Andy Griffith Show, That '70s Show, Modern Family, among others.  I might actually laugh the most per minute of watching at Arrested Development (first three seasons, of course).

EDIT: Wow, LOL, totally ignored the point of this thread and just listed shows I liked ... oh well.

HOGANS HEROES!! Yes love it.  I only wish they had written a series finale with Klink be smuggled out of Germany after the Germans realize what’s been going on under his nose.

[Badger]

Hogan's Heroes, MASH, Seinfeld, Cheers, The Office, It's Always Sunny, Scrubs, Arrested Development, Wings (don't think it's that funny, but this is a shout out to my dad), Andy Griffith Show, That '70s Show, Modern Family, among others.  I might actually laugh the most per minute of watching at Arrested Development (first three seasons, of course).

EDIT: Wow, LOL, totally ignored the point of this thread and just listed shows I liked ... oh well.

HOGANS HEROES!! Yes love it.  I only wish they had written a series finale with Klink be smuggled out of Germany after the Germans realize what’s been going on under his nose.

They actually partially filmed a finale before Bob Crane could quit. The entire camp escaped before Stalag 17 was to be abandoned. After which Klink was packed in a sedan by the recurring Gestapo office for transport to Dachau, while Schultz was stripped of his uniform in the snow while blubbering "I know NOTH-ink!!" and executed with a hail of point blank rifle shots.

The man shut it down as "too dark". Yeah, this from a show whose lead died of auto-erotic asphyxiation. Let art live, people!

[Del Tachi]

1990s

But how could you not list the best '90s sitcom of them all?  Seinfield

[Illiniwek]

I grew up watching ALL of those 60s shows. Def the best.

[DINGO Joe]

If you ever get a chance to see the episodes of Hogan's Heroes that were dubbed into German for German TV(with English subtitles) by all means watch, they make changes to have Klink even more incompetent (they also give him a never seen housekeeper who works in the nude).

[dead0man]

My favorite bit of trivia about Hogan's Heroes was that all the Nazis were Jewish.


Anyway, the answer is, (if you define "sitcom" broadly) is the current decade.  The Office, Parks and Rec, Community, Sunny in Philly, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Louie (can we still count this?), Veep, 30 Rock.

[The Dowager Mod]

Barney Miller before Fish left and Yamana died was classic.

[morgieb]

Err....how about none of the above? Granted there's plenty of trash sitcoms out today but the amount of good ones in the 21st Century dramatically outshine the 20th Century ones.

Out of those generations listed, I guess the 90's? Though even then that's just two shows (and given one was animated, hard to know how much that counts).

[Sprouts Farmers Market ✘]

The Jack Benny Program nearly carries the 50s among the listed options, but it should be quite obvious that the depth of the 90s can't be touched by any of the others even if it has Friends dragging it down.

[nicholas.slaydon]

Considering I've never found any sitcoms to be funny, with the exception of I Love Lucy, I guess I have to vote 1950's.

[Very Legal & Very Cool]

Is Seinfeld not a sitcom? Has Seinfeld transcended the "sitcom" label?

[Starry Eyed Jagaloon]

90s and 2000s

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

The 70s, but nothing tops Seinfeld and Roseanne.